9 comments:

Beautiful quilt! Love the magenta border.On basting, I only use pins. I don't like spray basting, more for environmental reasons -- toxic fumes, throwing the can away, etc.I like to tape my quilt back to my wood floor, and then layer the batting and top. I but on some music and start putting in pins! I often convince my mom to help me, then it goes twice as fast!

I love the final look with the magenta and the extended blocks. Have you tried cotton/poly batting? I have not but since Ricky Tims suggested it in his seminar, I'm trying that next. I assume the cotton grabs the fabric but the poly makes it lighter and easier to maneuver than Warm and Natural.

Great finish! Luv that backing. I'm a pinner; saftey pins but straight pins all around the edge which is just there till I machine baste that edge. Then I use my even feed to do any in the ditch lines and then ... the sky's the limit. I've not worked with wool.